Oscar Micheaux, the great and only
Subtitle: the life of America's first Black filmmaker
By: Patrick McGilligan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780060731397
Subjects: African American motion picture producers and directors; Biography; Motion picture producers and directors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 352-366.

"Works by Oscar Micheaux": p. [351].
Table of contents: title: 1884-1900: Metropolis, Illinois; title: 1900-1904: black Metropolis; title: 1904-1906: the rosebud; title: 1906-1908: the one true woman; title: 1908-1909: a new persona; title: 1909-1912: hammer blows; title: 1912-1914: dark days; title: 1914-1918: the film bug; title: 1919-1921: a tongue of fire; title: 1921-1922: Harlem and Roanoke; title: 1923-1924: the pale of the law; title: 1925-1927: straws in the wind; title: 1928-1931: a miracle rebound; title: 1931-1935: Jews with money; title: 1936-1940: reaping and sowing; title: 1941-1947: the wind from nowhere; title: 1947-1951: ahead of time.